The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-11-26

hard to say exactly to what uses it may
be put. As il will record and repeat any
kind of musical sound, and rs the pro-
cess of duplicating the phonoSram, as |
call nv sheet of metal which has passed
through the phonogrsph and become I'M
pressed with certain sounds, Is very
cheap. the phonogram copy of lecture,
a book, q play or an opera need cost but
a trihe.
For music / know you viii s;rnply
laugh when tell you what have done
with the two instruments tnat l have
finished. / have got the playing OF an
orchestra so perfectly that each instru
ment can be heard distinct from the rest;
Won can even tell the difference between
two pianos of different makes; yOG can
tell the voice of one singer from another;
you can get reproduction of an opeTajic
scene in which the orchestra, the chorlses
and soloists will be as distinct and as
satisfactory as opera in this sort of n,iGia-
ture can ever be made. Opera bv . le-
phone has been done in Paris and Lon
don more OF less successfully. but the
phonograph will eclipse the telephone for
this purpose beyond all COMPARISON. and
Photographic opera will cost nothing,
because the phonogram can be passed
through the phonograph, If necesS-rr, a
thousand times In succession. and once
the machine is bought there Is no other
cost beyond the triie for phonoGrams.
For books the phonogram will come III
the Shape of a long roll wound upon q
roller. To make the first Photographic
copy of book some good reader must of
course read il out to the instrument;
once that is done. duplication To any
number of thousand or million copies Is
simple mechanical work. easy and
cheap. Nov, Just think moment what
tutL ,De,.u5.
"Sunu1sa you ara sick, or blind. o. poor
or cannot sleep. YOl have a ph ,nOgraph,
ami ths wnole world of literature and
music Is open to you. The perfected
phonograph is going to do more for the
poor man than the printing press. No
matter where he is the poor man can
hear all the great lecturers of the world,
can have all the great books read to HIM
| by trained readers, can hear as much of
a play or an opera as If he was III the
next room TO the theater, and all this
at a cost scarcely worth mentioning l
remember that when the telephone was
first announced il was said that now peO-
p.e in the wilds of Africa or America
might assist nightly at the performances
of the Paris Opera House; the wires from
that favored spot might run to all parts
of the world, Well, We have not yet got
to that. althorgh it is scientific posi-
bility for the future To perfect IN detail.
Bot the phonograph will make such a
thing perfectly easy. The phOnog ographic
record of performance at tn Paris
Opera Heuse can he duplicated by the
thousand and mailed to all parts of the
world. don't know but that the news
paper of the future will be in the shape
of phonogram and the critic will give
his readers specimens of the performance
and let them hear just how the future
Patti did her work, well or otherwise
This sounds like the widest absurdiiy v,
and yet. when you come to think of H.
why notf Have / told you enough &c
make you believe that am joking! Well
/ am nothing of joker and this is all the
most sober kind of statement. Within
two months from now the first phono-
graphs will be in the market"